Luis E. Loría, president of the San José, Costa Rica-based organization IDEAS: "IDEAS is leading a fierce battle to end legal plunder in Costa Rica. During the past few decades, political, academic, business, and union leaders have hijacked the law making powers in order to pervert the laws and create immoral benefits, in the form of ‘luxury pensions’ and ‘luxury salaries and benefits’ for public sector employees. According to public figures, in 2017, the privileges of ‘Ticos con Corona’ (Costa Ricans with Crowns) amounted to 8.4 percent of GDP, in a country with a fiscal deficit of 6 percent of GDP,” said Loría. “We owe the success of our public campaign against legal plunder to Atlas Network’s Leadership Academy. I learned about how to design and implement public campaigns, coalition building, and structure effective advocacy efforts in the Think Tank MBA program. Also, the access to successful reformers, such as Juan José Daboub, Cristián Larroulet, and Simeon Djankov has proven invaluable in terms of insights and feedback about how to focus our efforts in order to maximize their impact. I'm now participating in the Fundraising Training Program, because we need to raise additional support to scale our efforts to put an end to the immoral privileges of the ‘Ticos con Coronas.'” #TicosConCorona #CeroToleranciaCorrupciónLegalizada #AcabemosConLasPensionesDeLujoYA #PrivilegiosInmorales #ConvencionesColectivasAbusivas #PrimaveraCostarricense